Vol. VIII.— No. 26. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



207 



Brighton Market. — Monday, Jan. 11. 

 (Reported for ihe Chronicle audPalriol.) 



The Market continues abundantly supplied, 

 itii Beef Cattle in particular. At market this 

 ly, 697 Cattle and 1290 Sheep, of which 241 

 attle and 730 Sheep (includinor 219 Sheep un- 

 ild last week) were at the Upper Market, and 

 56 Cattle and 560 Sheep, (including 44 Cattle 

 nsold last week) were at the Lower Market. 

 early 100 head of Cattle remained unsold at 

 e close of the market, ainonj; which were many 

 lOd Cattle. As the Barrcllers have about done, 

 e supply is greater than the demand for market 

 ef, which occasioned this day a slight reduction 

 former prices. Sheep meet with a steady 

 nrket and fair prices — we noticed sales of a few 

 :s of good Shee]) at §2 25 a 2 50 per head — 

 inner qualities at from $1 33 to I 75. Not 



ich doing in Swine — a small lot of 36, is all 

 ere were at market ; a few were retailed at 4J 

 5^, the residue remain on hand. 



From tlie American Farmer. 



BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD. 



The progress of this stupendous undertaking 



uals the expectations of its most sanguine friends. 



sufficient portion having been finished to afford 



rial of the cars, experiments have been made, 



.1 the result has proved highly flattering to the 



pes of the company and the public. About a 



le and a half of the road is railed, and various 



s and passenger carriages have been put on 



trial, the most useful of which are those on 



Winans principle. With one of these, contain- 



tweuty-tWo passengers, one horse travelled at 



rate of fifteen miles an hour. Three cars 



le been hitclied together, loaded with eightyfour 



ssengers, and drawn by one horse with great 



e, at the rate of eight miles an hour. These 



jeriments were made while the carriages 



re 7ieic, and of caurse subject to the disadvau- 



e of all new work, which requires some use to 



uce it to a state of greater freedom from friction. 



! have heard no one express any thing l:'jt the 



)st perfect satisfaction with the experiments, 



I we have no doubt they have tended greatly 



the advancement of the Rail-road cause. The 



il-road is now nearly ready for the rails, as far 



Ellicott's mills ; a distance of about thirteen 



les, including by far the most difficult and ex- 



isive part of the whole route ; and sixteen miles 



re, beyond Ellicott's, is in a stale of great for^ 



rdness. The bridge over Gwynn's falls, is one 



the most magnificent pieces of architecture in 



lerica. There are other works much greater 



magnitude, and more costly, but in everything 



t constitutes grandeur in architecture, we ha- 



little in saying, this stands unrivalled. Its 



portions, workmanship, and materials, are all 



utifully adapted to each other, and the whole 



he object in view. It is neither too high for 



length nor the reverse ; neither is it too heavy 



too light. It does not seem to bear too heavily 



any part, nor yet cause the observer to shudder 



the safety of the passengers, in consequence of 



■ apparent want of strength. The arch is grand, 



ostentatious ; and the whole structure magnifi- 



t without any other apparent aim than utility. 



3o far as the experiments have gone. Rail roads 



e obtained a decided advantage over canals 



jsli h in Europe and America. 



These advantages are, indeed, so striking and 

 leniable, since the late illustrations with locomo- 



tive engines in England, that it is not easy to jier- 

 ceive how any ])ublic agents, entrusted with mo- 

 ney to be expended for the promotion of internal 

 trade, could now answer to the public for giving 

 preference to canals. The responsibility of such 

 agents is not only to the existing j>ublic but to 

 posterity, and if those who ex|)end public means 

 on canals at this time, should twenty years hence 

 escape with being only laughed at, they will be 

 more or less fortunate only in the degree that 

 ridicule is or is not easier to be borne tlian indig- 

 nant rebuke. A gentleman told us the other day 

 that the damage to the banks of the Delaware and 

 Chesapeake Canal was already greater than will 

 be compensated by the toll to be derived from pas- 

 sengers' boats ; and these boats, be it remembered 

 with six horses move not as fast as one horse has 

 done with eighty, or one hundred passengers on 

 the Baltimore Rail-road — all this is not now, 

 matter of speculation, but of demonstration. 



GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 XT'Mr HoLBROOK will be happy to meet any of the 

 Members of the Legislature, at the Columbian Hall this 

 afternoon, Friday, the 15th inst. at3 o'clock, on the subject 

 of Geology. 



IMPROVED APIARY. 

 [CTA Model of an improved Bee Hive and Bee House, 

 comprising all the latest improvements, ' by James 

 Thacher, M. D. author of a valuable Treatise on the 

 Management of Bees, has been placed by him in the Hall 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for their in- 

 spection. — We shall next week give a more particular de- 

 scription of it. 



GREEN HOUSES. 

 [CrMr Henby Gray, horticultural architect, of Rox- 

 tmry, has left at the Hall of the Society, two drawings or 

 plans of Green Houses, comprising all the recent improve- 

 ments in use in Europe. We take pleasure in recom- 

 mending Mr Gray to persons who arc about to construct 

 Green Houses, summer houses, arbors, &c. he having 

 visited most of the celebrated establishments in England, 

 and is moreover a man of fine taste and intelligence. 



CORRECTIONS. 



ICrThe Author of the Frugal Housewife is anxious to 

 correct two errors of the press in that little work, lest the 

 inexperienced should be led into serious mistakes. Meat 

 should be broiled not boiled for Beef-tea ; — and celery 

 should be covered with tan, not with far. See page 27 

 and 32. 



Green House Plants and Floioers. 



The subscriber, gardener to J. Prince, Esq. at Jamaica 

 Plains. Roxburv, has for sale a large variety of plants, (among 

 them 20 varieties of Camellia Japonica from S't to ^8 cich,) 

 also flowers for Bouqilets ; and in the proper season, a variety 

 of hardy shrubs, plants, and fruit trees ; also, a quantity of Box 

 for borders, at reasonable orices. EDWARD SAYER. 



Jamaica Plains, Jan. 15', 1830. 4t 



Fine Stud Horse For Sale. 

 A beautiful dark bay stud, half blood of the English draught 

 horse, fifteen and a half hands high, strong and well formed, 

 eitrht years old the ensuing spring, is offered for sale. He is a 

 sure foal getter, fine figure, kind in any harness, and cannot 

 fail to give satisfaction. His stock has proved excellent, and 

 have sold at $50. at four months old. Apply (post paid) to 

 J. B. Russell, Publisher of the New England Fanner. 



eop4t Jan. 15 



Black Currant Wine. 

 For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 5! North Jlarket- 



A few dozen bottles of superior old Black Currant Wine 

 made by a gentleman in this vicinity ; an account of its astrin- 

 gent and detergent properties in various complaints, anii par- 

 ticularly Ihe Sore Throat will be found in the New England 

 Farmer, vol. v. page 267, written by Samuel W. Pomerot 

 Esq. and the late Doct. John G. Coffin. Price 73 cts. per 

 bottle,— also, a few bottles of old White Dutch Currant Wine, 

 price 50 cents per bottle. If Jan. !• 



' England 



Hemp Seed. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the Nc 

 Farmer, S2, North Market Street, 



A few bushelsof prime Hemp Seed, for sowing, growth of 

 1823, (raised wholly from Ihe celebrated Vergennes seed, which 

 cost $5 (ler bushel.) It is a small lot of uncommonly fine 

 quality, and farmers who are turning their atlenlion to the cul- 

 ture of this profitable plant, can secure excellent seed, at g3 

 per hushel. if applied for soon. if Jan. 15. 



Farmer Wanted. 

 Wanted an iulclligcnt, industrious, and capable man, with 

 a small family, to take charge of a large farm ; the wife ncal, 

 industrious, and well acquainted w ith the dairy. A person who 

 can well manage such a farm, where a large slock of sheep is 

 k(p;, acquaiiitcJ with the cultivation of roots, and systematic 

 in all branches of farming, and who is well known lor his in- 

 tegrity of character, may, perhaps, hear of a place that will 

 please him by applying at the oflice of the New England Far- 

 mer, eptf Jan, 1. 



Gardener Wanted. 



The subscriber w-ishes In employ a gardener who understands 

 his profession, and can produce satisfactory recommendations j 

 permanent employ and good encouragement will be given. Ap- 

 plication may be made at 548, Wnshiiigtoii-streel, Boston. 



Jan. 8. If THOMAS BREWER. 



Gleditschia triacanthos Seed. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, 52, North Market-street, 



A few pounds of fresh seed of the genuine gleditschia triacan- 

 thos, or three thorued Acacia, for live fences. This is the sort 

 recommended by Judge Buel, (in the New England Farmer 

 lor Dec. 11, page 164,) who has several thousand plants grow- 

 ing, as the best plant ihat can be cultivated in this country for 

 hedges; of very rapid growth, long and abundant thorns, and 

 of hard and strong wood. if Jan. 8. 



PKOVISIOIV MARKET. 



COHRKCTKD KVKEV WEEK RV Itl R IIAIWARD, 



(C(e:-kn/ Famiid-iiail Market. ) 

 BEEF, best pieces, - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, 



whole hogs, 

 VEAL, - 



MUTTON, . . - - 

 POULTRY, - . - - 

 BUTTER, keg and tub, - 

 Liinif., best, 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail. - 



Indian, relail, 

 POTATOS. 

 CIDER, [according to quality,] 



